SCREENSHOTS: 'Gaelic Games: Football'

Above, the Armagh and Dublin teams, below Croke Park with Mayo and Kerry, and emtpy. Click on the images for a larger view of the screenshots.

According to a press release issued today, the Australian games developer IR Gurus had 20 ‘designated’ staff working on ‘Gaelic Games: Football', it took over two years to develop, Croke Park and Fitzgerald Stadium took an in excess of 200 hours to digitalize, and each county jersey was close to 30 hours work.

The game is set for release in Ireland on November 11. A TV advertisement for the game is still available on this GAA club’s site, or directly by clicking here. [UPDATE: this link stopped working after this article was published]

Gaelic football players based in Australia were used for motion capture, “The solo was one of the most difficult moves to re-create as it can happen at such high speeds. The motion capture shoot only took a day but it takes months to actually get the animations ready for use in the game”, stated the release.

Mike Fegan, CEO of IR Gurus commented “From the beginning we wanted to emulate the excitement of Gaelic Football. We started at the very beginning, photographing Gaelic Football stadiums in Ireland, attending a multitude of games and then surrounding ourselves with football fans to help us capture the spirit of the game. The development of Gaelic Games: Football was a great experience for our whole team.”

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Comments

[seamoose]

Can anyone tell me if you will ba able to play this game online, I hope so, and will there be a north american release. Hope so or I'll be getting a tv, playstation and game posted to canada from home

[Colm Treacy]

Will the GAA computer game be available on other game platforms such as the PC CD-ROM? I hope it will be available for the PC.

[D]

dis gaelic game wud need 2 be gud cos iv alredy fuckn pre-ordered it

[D]

dis gaelic game wud need 2 be gud cos iv alredy fuckn pre-ordered it

[nic]

haha the mayo forward in the tv advert scores an own goal just look at the keepers jesey...ciarraí is an ghaeltacht go deo!

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[Shaggy]

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[tir eoghain fan]

how cum tyrone arent da best in da game

[carmen]

cum on tir eoghain

[gaelic game fan]

wat r all da stadiums in da game

[Conor]

Up da Dubs

[mark]

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[jjjjjjjjj]

j arse

[shane matthews]

YOU are all fenians

[Joseph kennedy]

do they sell this in the us so i can get it if they do tell me!

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